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Stop trying to make production “delightful.” Reliability requires exposed pipes, raw concrete, and the death of the “Single Pane of Glass.” We are drowning in “delightful” dashboards. Every vendor pitch begins with a promise to abstract away the complexity of your stack. They sell you a “Single Pane of Glass”—a sleek, rounded-corner UI that hides…
The Board finally approved it. You secured the budget to exit VMware, you selected your destination (Nutanix AHV, maybe Proxmox), and the mandate is clear: “Just move everything over. Keep it exactly the same.” That sentence—“Keep it exactly the same”—is why 60% of virtualization migrations are currently failing to meet their ROI targets. I recently…
Around 2018, I watched a Fortune 500 financial firm lose six months of engineering velocity because a marketing sub-team built a “simple” customer intake portal using a No-Code tool that didn’t support their VPC security requirements. By the time the Security Architects found it, 50,000 PII records were sitting in an unencrypted third-party database. This…
The “Gap of Grief”: While cloud providers speed ahead with new features, infrastructure-as-code tools often carry a heavy load of legacy support, creating a measurable lag. I’ve been designing cloud infrastructures for over 15 years, and the story is always the same. You see a flashy announcement at re:Invent or Ignite—maybe it’s a new high-performance…
